CYBERWAR
Artist: Greg Linares
Malware: Cyberwar
Medium: Digital, aluminium
Year: 2024
These art pieces are generated from the code of the Industroyer malware, which was used by Russia to cut power in Ukraine during the war. The images were created with a custom AI system developed by the artist. The system ran the malware in sandboxes, and code chunks were assigned English value names so they could be mapped to AI prompts. The prompts were fed to an image generating algorithm, combined with textures such as the map of Ukraine, resulting in the images seen here.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Greg Linares
Cybergoth, Musician
Greg’s professional career in cybersecurity began in 2006, when he joined eEye Digital Security as a Security Researcher. Prior to cybersecurity, Greg was a prominent member of the virus writing and exchange (VX) scene in the 90s and early 2000s. During his tenure, he was accredited with the discovery of several vulnerabilities in major vendors and verticals such as Microsoft, CA, Yahoo, Bitdefender, FLAC, Aviation and SCADA protocols. Over the next several years he performed many lead roles in reverse engineering, penetration testing, malware analysis, threat intelligence, and security software development. Currently he is the Principal threat intelligence analyst at Huntress and has a passion turning malware into visual and audio art and music. Follow Greg on X at @Laughing_Mantis.
